I certainly do not want to minimize the disaster in the gulf, with all the oil washing ashore.  But I would like to get a better understanding of just how much it is.  e.g. the other night, I understood the announcer to say it was much less than the Exon Valdez.

But more to the Virginia point,  I recall as a little tyke living at Virginia Beach during WWII, and having a tremendous amount of oil wash ashore from tankers sunk offshore by German U-Boats.  It was thick and coated everything.  Seagulls and other marine birds really took a hit.  Is there any tabulation of how much oil was in tankers sunk just off the VA and NC shore between Jan and June 1942?  How much reached shores? And how it was cleaned up?

Randy Cabell

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